NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 84 vs 80
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 84 vs 80

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 38 vs 18
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 620 vs 571
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 620 vs 571
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 540 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 38 vs 18
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 620 vs 571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 620 vs 571

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
84
80
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
18
38
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
571
620
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
571
620
Name NVIDIA ION NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
PassMark - G3D Mark 84 80
PassMark - G2D Mark 18 38
Geekbench - OpenCL 2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 571 620
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 571 620
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 0.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 10.49

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA ION NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name MCP7A-ION G98
Launch date 3 June 2008 1 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1691 1692
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $22.99
Price now $22.99
Value for money (0-100) 5.67

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt
Transistor count 282 million 210 million
Floating-point performance 20.8 gflops
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 4.32 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCI PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2